In the vaulting back room of a church off Islington's Upper Street in north London, five bad bogus men are plotting to bump off a little old lady. It is a hugely ambitious undertaking. Not only is The ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The Ladykillers was the last of the great Ealing comedies and, almost by default, the dying gasp of a vanishing London; still rationed and rubble-strewn, with steam trains on the tracks and carthorses ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

Considering that classic movies are immediately available to watch in the privacy of one's home for considerably less than a fistful of dollars, there really is no point in faithfully turning them ...

Joel and Ethan Coen are among the most baroquely perverse filmmakers around, and The Ladykillers, based on perhaps the most perverse English film comedy ever made, is in their best range. It’s both ...

As a new stage play version of The Ladykillers prepares to open, we look at William Rose's original screenplay, an 'ironic joke' about the decline of Britain. Martin Chilton 01 November 2011 • 1:00pm ...

“Jesus, I’ll never forget what you’ve done for me/You’ve set my soul free/I’ll never forget how you’ve brought me out/No, no, I’ll never forget” — from “Jesus I’ll Never Forget,” performed by The Soul ...

The souffle falls a little flat in “The Ladykillers,” a Coen brothers black comedy in which the humor seems arch and narrative momentum doesn’t kick in until the final third. Returning to the Deep ...

Before he was anointed as the Jimmy Stewart of the New America, Tom Hanks used to play jerks. Put-down artists. A–holes. He has always had a streak of the caustic, and he draws on that merry ...

Sadly, The Ladykillers never lives up to its promise. In updating the 1955 British comedy of the same name (with Alec Guinness as the professor), the Coens turn the film into an academic exercise.